Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

Klappentext From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions! none of which has ever been published before in English. Zusammenfassung From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English. A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather, who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire… Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia, these stories hum with simplicity and wisdom – and will delight anyone who loved Gao's bestselling novels, Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible.

Product details

• Authors: Xingjian Gao, Gao Xingjian, Gao Xingjian
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.03.2005
• EAN: 9780007170395
• ISBN: 978-0-00-717039-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)